Announcing the INSS Digital media competition "Visions of Social Sustainability"

Announcing the INSS Digital media competition “Visions of Social Sustainability”

The Integrated Network for Social Sustainability (INSS) is very excited to launch our film and digital media competition, “Visions of Social Sustainability.” Please see the…

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Corporate Idealism: an unconventional love affair

Corporate Idealism: an unconventional love affair

Review of Evolution of a Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil by Christine Bader Christine Bader starts off her memoir with the admission that she…

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Measuring Social Sustainability

By Frazier Benya, National Academy of Engineering Defining social sustainability is an area of particular interest to those who attended the first network meeting and…

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Social sustainability from an engineer’s perspective

Guest post by Cris Surbeck, U Mississippi Department of Civil Engineering During the first conference of the Integrated Network for Social Sustainability, we thought defining social…

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From intersection to interaction: reconceptualizing social sustainability

 Guest post by Sarah Bell Image  Some rights reserved by Niecieden Sustainable development is often depicted as a Venn diagram, with sustainability at the intersection of society, the…

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Defining social sustainability

Guest post by Brian Burke Image:  Some rights reserved by CGIAR Climate I came to the first INSS meeting wondering what it meant to put the adjective “social”…

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Social Sustainability and Social Institutions

Social Sustainability and Social Institutions

Guest post by Rachelle Hollander, National Academy of Engineering and INSS Steering Committee The issue of what is social sustainability provided considerable puzzlement at our…

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Thomas Jefferson on Sustainability

Thomas Jefferson on Sustainability

Guest post by Paul Thompson In The Agrarian Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics, I rely heavily on Jefferson’s example for my basic model of sustainability,…

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